Tropical plants thrive in a 70-75° F room temperatures during the fall / winter months. Frequently, the central heating system is running at maximum warmth and results in low room humidity. The lush foliage of many tropical plants suffers leaf edge burn and tip dieback caused by low humidity. Here are nine (9) methods listing ways to raise room humidity. You may need to employ two or more methods.

1. Mist Plants Daily

Misting plants is one of the easiest and most interactive ways to raise humidity around your plants. Misting your plants not only raises humidity you’re inspecting them for disease and pest problems and caring for some individually.

2. Place pans and bowls with water nearby your plants

Setting containers of water around plants slowly evaporates water, thereby raising humidity levels.

3. Best Room To Grow Plants

Bathroom, Kitchen, and Laundry are the best rooms to grow house plants. Showering, cooking, washing dishes and drying clothes raise humidity levels on your home.

4. Pebble Trays Boost Humidity

Cafeteria serving trays or old plates and saucers no longer in use, filled with pebbles and small rocks, support pots and plants. The pots do not sit in puddles of water. Excess water between the stones slowly evaporates and raises room humidity. Do not fill too much water in the tray which may lead to root rot.

5. Room humidifier

A room humidifier maintains your apartment or home at a desired humidity level over the fall and winter months. A small portable unit raises a humidity around your plants. You might even be able to set it anywhere in the room to benefit several plant groupings within a large room.

6. Give Tropical Plants Their Weekly Shower

Keeping the bathroom door ajar while showering spreads humidity to adjacent rooms. Also, move plants into a tub weekly and give them a short 3-5 minute shower. It waters the roots, raises humidity, and washes off the dusty leaves

7. Have an aquarium nearby your plants

A nearby fish tank or aquarium sited close to your plants. The water surface gradually evaporates and raises the room humidity levels. Combining a plant collection with an aquarium is a decorative look great looking water plants.

8. Set plants close together

House plants breathe and add humidity to your home. Water evaporates from leaves and soil thereby raising room humidity. Place tropical leafy house plants in close proximity to one another. With certain tropicals, such as orchids and bromeliads, supply higher humidity by employing a multiple of methods.

9. Build a terrarium

A closed terrarium offers an ideal environment to plants demanding high humidity levels. Examples include nerve plant (Fittonia), African violet (Saintpaulia), anthuriums, orchids, and Venus flytraps.